Overview of the Global Health Issues Facing Children

This first Pediatrics Perspectives column on global health joins the monthly rotation with other columns on medical history, graduate medical education, and medical student education. It makes good sense to add global health to the rotation. After all, the future of our world depends on the health a...

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Published in:Pediatrics (Evanston) 2012, Vol.129 (1), p.1-3
Main Authors: AUGUSTO CABRAL, Sergio, TEREZ, Anna, DE MOURA, Soares
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biological and medical sciences
Cause of Death
Child
Child health
Child Health Services
Child Mortality
Child Welfare
Child, Preschool
Children
Childrens health
Company business management
Developing Countries
Federal aid to child health services
Federal aid to infant health services
General aspects
Global Health
Government aid to child health services
Health aspects
Health Promotion
Humans
International Agencies
International aspects
Management
Medical sciences
Pediatrics
Quality of life
Societies, Medical
World health
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Summary:This first Pediatrics Perspectives column on global health joins the monthly rotation with other columns on medical history, graduate medical education, and medical student education. It makes good sense to add global health to the rotation. After all, the future of our world depends on the health and well-being of all its children. Medical history will be determined by the global health issues facing children today, and surely our education programs must broaden their content to include worldwide issues to meet the demands of future pediatric practice. It has been said by many pediatricians that any disease found on this planet is no farther than a plane ride from your local hospital. Clearly, the world is a very small place for all its inhabitants, and every day, travel continues to bring us closer. Global Health Perspectives will bring issues to the readership that will stimulate our thinking about strategies and initiatives to improve child health in the broadest context. For our initial column, Drs Cabral and Soares de Moura have traced the recent history of global child health, sharing perspectives that should cause each of us to think about the future of humankind. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
ISSN:0031-4005
1098-4275
DOI:10.1542/peds.2011-2665